Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 19, 2006

Just after returning from India and Bangladesh, I received word that one of my key contacts and hosts had suddenly passed away. He has been described as the pioneer of Talking Books in India, and had been campaigning for a copyright law change to make it easier to provide access to accessible books.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 27, 2010

The benefits of collocating the social entrepreneurs in one place has been proven in past years: a large amount of the value of attending the WEF is meeting with global social entrepreneur colleagues, and trading notes about the best ways to change the world for the better. I’m already getting into the spirit.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2010

Next, I went to the Social Entrepreneurs Corner (a space set aside for the SEs) and ended up talking in detail with Iftekhar of Waste Concern from Bangladesh about the idea they floated in the bar a couple days ago for software to help cities reduce their carbon footprint.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Meaning, as print news becomes obsolete, nuanced approaches to information-sharing will emerge that will meet the intended goals of journalism; consumption of information will change; and reporters will no longer be the only ones who are breaking news. Shirkey also said, “Now is the time for experiments, lots and lots of experiments.”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 24, 2007

Almost everyone here does something interesting, and you are more likely than not find a common interest with someone you would never would have a priori guessed would be passionate about human rights, or technology, or the political situation in Bangladesh, or environmental change, or.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 13, 2006

According to the organization's web site: The Grameen Bank provides credit to the poorest of the poor in rural Bangladesh, without any collateral. With 2,226 branches, GB provides services in 71,371 villages, covering more than 100 percent of the total villages in Bangladesh. As of May 2006, it has 6.61

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

Social change has always come from the leadership of the many. Went into investment banking to understand the market to harness it to create massive social change. Let people see that they are powerful change-makers. Change how giving is done. Change how corporate America participates in volunteering.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

The most populous Muslim country is Indonesia , followed by India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Egypt. These involve detection and interruption, identifying individuals involved in transmission, and changing social norms of the communities where it occurs. The Challenge of Philanthropy to the Muslim World.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Simple and small changes in our global, political, and personal priorities can make a huge difference. ???We Shawn's goal was to change the conversation about ending poverty. He chronicled his story and work in Bangladesh using social media tools and engaging story telling techniques. It doesn???t s your homework???

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

For example, I'm planning on going to India and Bangladesh next month for the first time, and to Uganda and Sudan next year. If you know some brilliant developers who want to actually get paid to change the world, put them in touch with us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

charity: water even has an entire section of their site dedicated to stories from the field, where people who work for or collaborate with the nonprofit tell stories about the experiences they’ve had bringing clean water to people in Rwanda, Uganda, Bangladesh and more. Make storytelling a central part of your marketing efforts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

This increased ubiquity may result in some changes to the specific demographic bases of individual platforms, but even if people’s habits are changing, it appears that people are moving from one social platform to another, rather than deserting social media in its entirety. Citizen Digital Engagement in Policy Discussions and Action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Free agents are powerful social change players. Shawn Ahmed sent us a video from Bangladesh with his reflections on how nonprofits can work with Free Agents. For example, in Bangladesh, people mistrust nonprofits, but they are more open to individuals.

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Global Giving

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

These days, it seems like everyone is talking about how blockchain is the coolest new thing—capable of changing everything, including aid and philanthropy. If we were able to use technology to make this process easier, more scalable, and more efficient, it could potentially be world changing. What risks might blockchain unlock?

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

In the 20th century, it orchestrated large-scale social change when it had the capacity — the resources, expertise, and available political, social, and economic institutions — to do so. Social entrepreneurship is a demand-side process of responding to social needs that leads to large-scale social change. Shockley, Ph.D.,

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2016

Would you like to change a life in 2016? 3 days left to change a life. Get last-minute gifts that carry a lifetime of change. 5 of 5] Your gift will go three times as far to fight climate change. Steve: There’s still time to change lives. Change the world with your IRA. Help change the future.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 7, 2013

It was so gratifying to see firsthand how Martus , a free and open-source software tool developed by Benetech, is empowering people to be the change they wish to see. ND-Burma member groups regularly send observers, at great personal risk, across Burma’s borders with India, Bangladesh, Thailand and China.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

PG: Some 12 years ago, or so, I made a career change at then, age 55. It was a book called In Her Hands: Craftswomen Changing the World. BB: What advice do you have for artists who want to use their art for social change? BB: Can you talk a little bit about what path brought you to this work?

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2006

I think that I certainly have friends that cross the whole spectrum in terms of what they're choosing to do with their personal and professional lives, and I still think of them as very much change makers.

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